Shelby, NC native, Attie Bostick,
followed in the steps of Lottie Moon.

Read the inspiring letters of this
stalwart messenger of Christ.

Called
to China: Attie Bostick's Life &
Missionary Letters from China: 1900-1943

Born in
1875, into a large farming family in rural
North Carolina, Attie Bostick heard the call
to mission work in China at age fourteen.
Arriving in China during the Boxer rebellion
in 1900, Attie coped with famines, floods,
sickness, and death in a country plagued with
revolutions, civil wars, and foreign
invasions. She won many to Christ during her
long career as a Baptist missionary from
1900-1943. In 1941, she was interned by the
Japanese after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Rebekah (Becky) Ellis
Adams

A
native of Shelby, NC, and a great-niece of
Attie Bostick, Becky Adams, transcribed over
500 pages of Atties letters from China.
She was baptized in the same church as Attie,
Zoar Baptist Church. Becky worked as a United
States Probation Officer for the Federal
courts in Washington, DC and Alexandria,
Virginia, from 1975 to 1999, when she and her
family moved to Huntsville, Alabama, where
she resides. She now conducts security
clearance background investigations.